II Fliegerkorps

The II Fliegerkorps was an air corps of the German Luftwaffe that was active from 11 October 1939 to April 1945 during World War II. During Operation Barbarossa, the corps flew over 40,000 day and night sorties, dropping 23,150 tons of bombs and destroying 3,826 Soviet planes, 789 tanks, 614 artillery pieces, 14,339 vehicles, 240 enemy field positions, 33 bunkers, 159 trains, and 304 locomotives. On 15 November 1941, the corps was relocated to the Mediterranean, and it was stationed in the Balkans for the rest of the war.